The concept of one health highlights that human health is not isolated but connected to the
health of animals, plants and environments. In this Review, we demonstrate that soils are a …

Intestinal parasitic infections are common infectious diseases causing many health
problems and impaired growth and physical development.. Children under five years old are …

Our goal is to present recent progress in understanding the biological mechanisms
underlying anemia from a public health perspective. We describe important advances in …

Intestinal parasites include intestinal protozoa and intestinal helminths. Intestinal parasitic
infections (IPIs) pose a global health problem affecting over one billion people worldwide …

Iron deficiency and iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) affects approximately two billion people
worldwide, and most of them reside in low-and middle-income countries. In these nations …

Objective To evaluate efficacies of anthelmintic drugs against soil transmitted helminths in
terms of cure rates and egg reduction rates. Design Systematic review and network meta …

Bangladesh is increasingly experiencing different challenges from scarce drinking water
sources and health risks, explicitly or implicitly attributed to climate change. This systematic …

Helminths have evolved to become experts at subverting immune surveillance. Through
potent and persistent immune tempering, helminths can remain undetected in human …

The major soil-transmitted helminths that infect humans are the roundworms, whipworms
and hookworms. Soil-transmitted helminth infections rank among the most important …

Host-parasite interactions exert strong selection pressures on the genomes of both host and
parasite. These interactions can lead to negative frequency-dependent selection, a form of …